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Letter "P" » prisoner
«We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society. For the prisoner, the chronically ill, the bedridden old and the destitute, we reserve the forced collective life.»
Author: Elaine Cumming
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«Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity»
Author: Father James Keller
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«To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.»
Author: Lewis B. Smedes
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Forgiveness
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«The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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«The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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clings, clung, committed, crime, over and over, prisoner, The One, The Prisoner, The Prisoner of
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